The settlement of the Sahara issue should go through dialogue between Morocco and Algeria with a view to reaching a pragmatic solution, said Thursday former Vice President of the European Parliament, Isabelle Durant.

Morocco’s autonomy initiative represents the “only viable way” to reach a political settlement to the Sahara issue, Former Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson said on Wednesday in Rabat.

The last resolution of the UN Security Council on the Sahara, extending MINURSO mandate, is "a setback for Algerian diplomacy," according to the Spanish electronic site "Nuevatribuna.es".

Polisario, a destabilizing factor in the region, does not transmit international aid to populations in camps and violates MINURSO mandate, said Wednesday the Swedish news website Ledarsidorna.

The notoriously partial stances by the African Union (AU) in favor of Algeria and its creation “the Polisario” strip it from any credibility or legitimacy to assume any role concerning the Moroccan Sahara issue, said, on Tuesday in New York, Morocco’s ambassador to the UN Omar Hilale.